Forward

This is the beginning of the Steemit Collaborative Fiction Series entitled - Artist Imprint Shades of Iridescence

The music chosen for the Prologue (listen while your read)

Prologue

One this day of New Beginnings
My first walk in Central Park of which I am sure there will be many.

My journal entry will read
Hello, world,
I am Karen
A recent graduate of Parsons School of Design
My studies of fashion design began in Paris and I finished my degree in Parson’s New York.
And after a long hot summer back home in Austin, Texas I have returned to New York to pursue a career in writing about the art of fashion or to write poetry, I don’t know maybe both. I wonder which one will help people the most?

In this big old world
Where I sometimes sense,
Feel…
So small
Where sometimes it’s easy to get lost in it all.
Yet I will choose,
And quickly I’m learning
That it’s our choices that determine our destiny.
And if we don’t move with a quickness, we will lose
Our footing,
In life, in a world
Which will just walk on by.
And when I look at myself from another shade,
Another view
Which I rarely care to take time to do.
I venture to one of the back rooms of me
And there I see underlying uncertainties
I see so much that seems odd and unclear
I feel somedays, that some left me out of the game that’s being played
All around me
And still, I wonder, through it all
With a knowing that my relentless spirit will lead me to truths
That will make sense of these intriguing yet perplexing mysteries.

I choose,
To follow my passion along with my instincts
And in this world, I will move up and have the courage to hold my head up
And look people in their eyes.
I will rise as the Artist, Writer, Poet that I am.
I dare to take a stand
And leave my artist imprint
Yes, the people of tomorrow will know that I was here.
And if it’s not to write our gifts on life or leave an imprint or work in a way that will leave the world in a better place.

Then for what reason do we come here?
I know I was born at this time to do something good,
That will build bridges to the future
Upon which many others will walk and create and sprinkle their gifts, and giving.
Leaving their imprint
As a calling card, as bread crumbs, for others to follow and do the same.

From where I now stand,
As I am once again,
At the beginning.
I don’t know what all my tomorrows will bring
But I do know,
I will stay on this course I have chosen.
I have a knowing that what I write will be far-reaching
Because I’ve got something to say.

Cover Art Painting -

Full Moon Mardi Gras

• a collaborative courtesy of @inksanity
  Central Park image- Photography by Vivienne Gucwa